Hilda Dokubo bounces back in new movie, Stigma

Veteran Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo has returned to her first love, acting, on a new advocacy movie titled Stigma. The actress who has been away for quite a while revealed that she is presently working on more scripts as well as her own TV show.

Speaking with The Nation at the screening of Stigma, a movie on stigmatization which took place at the Nigerian Film Corporation last Saturday, Dokubo said that her decision to star in the movie is because it is a cause she believes in.

“People have done movies about how we can contact HIV AIDS, living with HIV AIDS but we have hardly done anything on what happens after people have contracted the virus and how people could deal with living with it. Stigmatisation is a killer. It just means rejection as a result of it. And when people reject the victims, it is the same as showing hate. When people show you hate, you can’t grow. Hate is negative energy. You can’t tap any kind of strength from rejection or from hate. But you can tap a lot of strength from love and that is what is special about this,” she said.

Hilda plays the role of Ibiso who works as a local midwife. In the cause of her work, she contracts HIV which she passes on to her daughter, Vanessa (Jackie Appiah). While the mother dies of rejection, the daughter thrives in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.

The movie, directed by Dagogo Diminas, also stars the likes of Emeka Ike, Ngozi Nwosu and Soibifaa Dokubo among others.